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• The Double Shadow • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• Timekeeper • (1990) • novelette by John Morressy
• The Walker Behind • [Lythande] • (1987) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Game of Magical Death • (1987) • short story by Doug Hornig
• To Become a Sorcerer • (1991) • novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
• Seven Drops of Blood • [Sidney Taine] • (1992) • short story by Robert Weinberg
• Master of Chaos • [The Elric Saga] • (1964) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• The Closed Window • (1903) • short story by A. C. Benson
• In the Realm of Dragons • (1998) • novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• The Sage of Theare • juvenile • [Chrestomanci] • (1982) • novelette by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Bones of the Earth • [Earthsea Cycle] • (2001) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Witch's Bicycle • juvenile • (2002) • novelette by Tim Pratt
• Foreword: Spellbound • essay by Mike Ashley
• Ten Things I Know About the Wizard • (1983) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Villaggio Sogno • novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• The Infestation • short story by Tom Holt
• The Rite Stuff • novelette by Michael Kurland
• Disillusioned • (1995) • short story by Mike Resnick and Lawrence Schimel (variant of disIllusions)
• Forever • [Noreela Short Fiction] • novelette by Tim Lebbon
• The Wizard of Ashes and Rain • (2001) • short story by David Sandner
• The Last Witch • short story by James Bibby
• Last Rites • short fiction by Louise Cooper
• The Eternal Altercation • novelette by Peter Crowther